CIELO: The Center for Innovative & Engaged Learning Opportunities

CIELO supports a wide variety of activities, including:

• sharing knowledge, skills and values through seminars, workshops, conversations and publications;
• engaging in and sharing original research on student learning;
• building faculty learning communities that are cohort based (e.g. new faculty, senior faculty for teaching excellence, faculty teaching first-time freshmen, part-time faculty and teaching assistants), course/discipline-based, and topic based (e.g. using technology to enhance learning, community service-learning, problem-based learning, linked courses).
• Encouraging students to become independent, self-reliant learners and responsible members of their communities;
• exploring alternate modes of learning (e.g. modules, self-paced learning, on-line instruction, limited seat time);
• involving students in conversations with faculty regarding teaching-learning issues; and
• investigating transition issues for new students to help them get the most from their college experience.

Finding CIELO: directions and maps

• CIELO is located on the Sierra Hall 4th floor “rooftop” corridor. Climb the stairs or take the Sierra Hall freight elevator, which is located in the southwest corner of Sierra Hall just outside the American Indian Studies Program office and around the corner from the large Geography Department globe.
• The CIELO suite is upstairs on the fourth floor, near the Whitsett Room. We share a corridor with the offices of the Dean of Humanities and the Dean of Social & Behavioral Sciences.
• Please note that Online Instruction is now part of Academic Technology for Faculty, which is located in Oviatt Room 30, on the Garden Level of Oviatt Library, behind and beneath the library's Grand Staircase.
• Map with Sierra Hall: http://www.csun.edu/cielo/images/SierraHallMap_11111.gif
• CSUN campus map: http://www.csun.edu/maps/
• Call us if you can't find us: (818) 677-6535 or just x6535 on campus